Just what the Mets and Phillies (and their fans) needed: another marathon game.
The teams went 14 innings Saturday after playing 14 Friday night/Saturday morning. They wound up with a split; the Mets won Saturday, 5-4, after the Phillies won Friday, 6-5.
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A few fun facts and figures:
— Combined times of the games: 10 hours, 55 minutes, over a period of 25 1/2 hours.
— Combined pitches thrown: 944.
— Saturday's winning pitcher, Buddy Carlyle, began the day in El Paso, Texas, where the Mets' Triple-A team is playing. Carlyle was recalled after the Mets' 'pen threw 9 1/3 innings Friday. He got to the ballpark an hour or so before the 3:10 p.m. first pitch, then held the Phils scoreless in the 11th, 12th and 13th.
Carlyle was making his first big league appearance in almost three years (June 25, 2011), and he earned his first win since Sept. 24, 2008, with the Braves. It's possible he'll be cut to make room for left-hander Dana Eveland, who was called up after Saturday's game (per ESPNNewYork.com) for bullpen reinforcement.
— The Phillies made franchise history this weekend:
This is the first time the Phillies have had back to back 14 inning games according to Elias
— Kevin Cooney (@KevinCooney) June 1, 2014— And it was just the second time the Mets had accomplished the feat:
Only other time Mets played consecutive 14+ innings games in one season: Sept. 7-8, 1979 vs. Pittsburgh (14 and 15).
— Adam Rubin (@AdamRubinESPN) June 1, 2014— Three times in extra innings Saturday, the Phillies failed to score after putting runners on first and second with none out.
— The Mets' broadcast crew noted that Saturday was the 50th anniversary of the club's 23-inning game loss to the Giants, which lasted a then-record 7 hours, 23 minutes. Oh, and it was also the second game of a doubleheader.
— These division rivals still have two games left in their five-game weekend series. They'll play at 1:30 p.m. Sunday and 7:05 p.m. Monday; the finale is a makeup of a rainout in April. Rain is about the only thing that's been missing from this series.
— If they aren't sick of each other by now, they might be by season's end. Counting Sunday and Monday, they're scheduled to meet 11 more times.
